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To: nommedeguerre who wrote (31962)	1/22/2002 2:59:37 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213176

>> The fact that MacOS X is based on BSD Unix does matter to the tech crowd. Windows no longer has the interest of my peers and these people were the ones who latched onto Windows development from the start. Linux is building in momentum now and MacOS X could benefit from the development effort. MacOS X is the best of both worlds, really.<< Norm - I agree. The increase in Apple's market share may turn out to come from an unlikely avenue, as a lot of the brain power that's been focused on Linux turns toward OS X development. Meanwhile, in the past week I have had another experience that reminded me of why I prefer Macs. About the same time last week, my main Mac (the PowerBook) and my main PC (an AMD-based hot rod I built myself, running Windows XP) both started to act balky. At first, the Mac's problem seemed more serious. It was freezing up, forcing me to reboot. It happened three or four times. The horror. The Windows XP problem was clearly minor; the machine just wouldn't run Nero, my CD-burning software. To fix the Mac, I opened up a terminal window, ran a command (ps -cx) to see what processes were running, and noted that two of them belonged to the beta version of Retrospect I'd installed to check it out. So I dragged the two Retrospect files out of my Startup folder to the trash, then dragged the folder containing the rest of the beta there, too. I rebooted and have been crash-free since. As I began trouble-shooting the PC, however, I was led down a torturous path. Multiple failed attempts to run the uninstall program to get rid of Nero, then to reinstall it. When that didn't work, I had to go into the registry to manually remove entries belonging to Nero. But I would get an error message saying "There has been an error accessing that key." I couldn't submit a problem report to Microsoft using their built-in help system because Norton Antivirus Script Blocker kept stopping me. I had to disable Script Blocking. That's when I discovered that I couldn't run Norton Antivirus' configuration program. Then when I tried to edit the Norton AV entries in the registry I started getting that same "error accessing the key" message. Several steps later, the solution to my problem is to do a new clean install of Windows, because my registry is hosed. After re-installing Windows, I'll have to re-install and reconfigure every single application I use on the PC. I'll have to update all my drivers again, etc. By the way, Windows XP has a great new feature that does a "checkpoint" of your registry at intervals so you can restore your system back to a point where it was working. Didn't work for me. No matter what checkpoint I chose, the system would tell me that it couldn't restore that one. No explanation, it just couldn't. Life is finite. I don't want to spend this much time reinstalling Windows and Windows applications. OS X rules. - Allen